A brave young woman negotiates Beijing life in search of love and friendship in the daring new novel by Xiaolu Guo, Orange Prize shortlisted author and 'one of China's most successful literary exports' (Guardian)

近年来，中国作家用英语创作的小说在西方越来越受关注。最近在英国出版的《20 Fragments of A Ravenous Youth》（笔者草译为‘一个饥俄青年的20片断’）是来自北京的作家和电影制作者郭小橹的新作。 作品描述的是一个名叫芬芳的农村姑娘，千里迢迢来到北京寻求她的艺术梦，并立志要征服这个城市的故事。 为了打进影视圈，芬芳不惜在片场充当群众演员，在剧场扫地；她不停的换工作，也不停的换男人，而她对成功的饥饿如同她健硕的胃口，永远得不到满足。 作者以直接了当、诙谐尖锐的笔调塑造了一个集愤怒、无奈、坚强、脆弱于一身的现代中国女性形象，这对西方的阅读市场不能不说是一种文化冲击。在此之前，郭小橹于2007年发表的第一部用英语写作的小说 《A Concise Chinese - English Dictionary for Lovers》 ( 笔者...(展开全部)

At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was – temporarily – an alcoholic. Moved from home to home, from brick tenement to orphanage, he had had, by the age of twelve, only one year’s formal education. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life under white subjectio...(展开全部)

At four years of age, Richard Wright set fire to his home; at five his father deserted the family; by six Richard was – temporarily – an alcoholic. Moved from home to home, from brick tenement to orphanage, he had had, by the age of twelve, only one year’s formal education. It was in saloons, railroad yards and streets that he learned the facts about life under white subjectio...(展开全部)

This is a groundbreaking examination of one of the most important artists in the Western tradition by one of the leading art historians and critics of the past half-century. In his first extended consideration of the Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1573-1610), Michael Fried offers a transformative account of the artist's revolutionary achievement. Bas...(展开全部)

There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but a...(展开全部)

A writer called Amit Chaudhuri arrives in Bombay on a book-related visit,and finds himself in search of the city he grew up in.In a city shaken to its core not long ago by the 2008 terrorist strikes,his errant local friend,Ramu,a six-foot-tall Kannadiga and one-time junkie who cannot reconcile himself to modern-day adult life,is an unlikely protagonist,Bombay incarnate.The writ...(展开全部)

InFriend of My Youth, a novelist named Amit Chaudhuri visits his childhood home of Bombay. The city, reeling from the impact of the 2008 terrorist attacks, weighs heavily on his mind, as does the unexpected absence of his childhood friend Ramu, a drifting, opaque figure who is Amit's last remaining connection to the city he once called home. Amit Chaudhuri's new novel is about ...(展开全部)

There is a woman haunted by her dreams of her dead mother. There is an adulterous couple stepping over the line where the initial excitement ends and the pain begins. There is a widow visiting a Scottish village in search of her husband's past and instead discovering unsettling truths about a total stranger. The ten stories in this collection not only astonish and delight but a...(展开全部)